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Volume CIV, Number 4
University of Southern California
Wednesday, June 10, 1987
University goes to court
By Danny Bowker
Editor
The university and 10 of its researchers will be arraigned tomorrow for mishandling radioactive materials.
At the Los Angeles Municipal Court arraignment, the university and the researchers will plea guilty or not guilty to 179 charges that were filed March 12 bv City Attorney James Hahn.
According to Stephen Auer, the university's counsel, most of the violations are "regarding paperwork and record-keeping."
But a spokesman for Hahn's office said that the majority of the charges are for incidents and not related to documentation.
Gwendolyn Irbv, the deputy city attorney who is prosecuting the case, told the Daily Trojan "These individuals and the university are being charged with violations of the California Radiation Control regulations, which stems from failure to comply with that code."
The defendants have been instructed by their counsel not to answer any questions about the case.
The radioactive materials in question were being
used mainly in cancer research on the university's Health Sciences Campus.
In a news release, Hahn said that administrators for the campus "were not managing their radiation safety program in a way that regulated the use of radioactive materials or protected their staff and students from excessive radiation exposure."
A spokesman for Hahn said the main charges include:
• The use of radioactive materials by unauthorized personnel.
• The use of radioactive materials in unauthorized places.
• The illegal transfer and disposal of radioactive materials.
• The failure to test radioactive sources for possible leaks.
• Improper calibration of testing equipment to sense individual room contamination.
• The failure to test the rooms where radioactive materials are kept.
• The failure to establish a training program regarding the handling of radioactive materials.
Auer said it would probably be between 45 and 60 days before the case goes to trial, unless there is another continuance.
Wu dislikes policy, resigns
By Danny Bowker
Editor
In a difference of opinion with Athletic Director Mike McGee, the university's director of the student-athlete academic program has resigned.
Willie Wu said McGee's policy of requiring athletes to complete 28 credit hours a year puts financial considerations ahead of the academic well-being of the athletes.
"A lot of it is just a disagreement in the way that you ought to handle student-athletes from a counseling point of view," Wu said. "It's simply a case that I wasn't sure if the priorities they set were right. Sometimes the constraints on the student-athlete made it difficult for them to make the progress McGee wanted."
Last fall, McGee implemented a policy that required athletes to complete 28 credit hours a year in order to be eligible for athletic department financial aid when they have completed their eligibility in their sport.
Athletes are only eligible to compete for four years but it often takes them five or more years to graduate because of a
reduced course load.
National Collegiate Athletic Assoc, rules require only that an athlete complete 12 credit hours a semester to be eligible to compete.
Wu said he resigned because he was not consulted about the decision to implement the policy and because the policy seemed to be motivated by McGee's desire to save financial-aid money.
"Now I'm told we're trying to save money because of the termination of all the coaches but we should have thought of all that before they were terminated," Wu said. "The student's education shouldn't be compromised for financial considerations."
Wu said McGee's decision did not consider that the academic and athletic loads put on some students make it unreasonable for them to complete more than 12 credit hours a semester.
For some students it is absolutely not a problem, but for some students it is a problem. For a student-athlete to do 30 to 40 credit hours of work in athletics and another 14 hours a semester isn't reasonable," Wu said.
Wu said he was caught in the middle of enforcing a policy he did not agree with.
"It's just hard for me to face a student and ask him to do something that may damage him," Wu said. "Even if he completed the 28 hours a year it just makes him eligible to be considered. He still might not get financial aid."
FINGER BOWL — An artist uses his hand to shape a bowl from clay at the Festival of Folk Art. The 12th Annual "International Los Angeles" Festival of Folk Art begins Sunday at the Natural History Museum. The festival's purpose is to highlight the diverse ancestry of Los Angeles. Please see the related story on page 3.
Emanuel gone for year
AARON EMANUEL
By Dave Nimick
Staff Writer
Tailback Aaron Emanuel was suspended from the university for the 1987-88 academic year.
On the recommendation of a three-person administrative review panel, Emanuel was ordered by the Office of Student Affairs to complete 100 hours of community work with victims of violence. He was also ordered to undergo psychiatric treatment monthly during his suspension.
The student conduct review was used because of an incident that took place on May 4 at an off-campus party.
Sharon Hatfield, a member of the women's track team, alleges that Emmanuel came on to her and later punched her in the face, knocking her unconscious.
The 20-year-old Emanuel is set for arraignment in Pasadena Municipal Court on June 17 for the incident involving Hatfield, and on another battery count stemming from an alleged inci dent that occurred on December 18, 1986 with another USC student, Tammy Baird.
Emanuel faces a maximum penalty of one year in countv jailfor one count of battery. Th» (Continued on page 3)
Emeritus professor McCulloch dies at 101
IRENE MCCULLOCH
By Erin O'Malia
Staff Writer
Irene McCulloch, an emeritus professor of biological sciences, died of heart failure May 30. She was 101 years old.
When McCulloch joined the faculty in 1924 she wanted to expand the biology program and worked with Capt. G. Allan Hancock to build the Allan Hancock Foundation for Marine research in 1940.
"She had a lot to do with getting the Hancock building," said Carl Franklin, vice president.
The foundation includes the Hancock Library of Biology and Oceanography, laboratories, a museum, and an auditorium among other things.
McCulloch retired from teaching in 1953 but continued re-
search on single celled organisms called Foraminifera. She published the fourth volume of the book, when she was 94 years old.
In 1982, McCulloch said of the program "We wanted to know what was in the Pacific Ocean. We always stressed practical application. We looked for rare minerals and natural resources, but our primary thrust was what's in the ocean."
"She was a super lady and a very distinguished scientist," Fran kiln said. "She was not only a scientist but a humanist as well. She had some students living in her house over on 30th Street and if they couldn't pay she usually let them go."
McCulloch earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at the
University of Kansas and graduated in 1913. She finished her doctrine at the University of California in 1916, but before teaching at USC she taught at Occidental and Tulane.
In 1971, the Los Angeles City Council honored McCulloch for "a lifetime of teaching and scientific research."
In 1969, colleagues and former students began a McCulloch foundation for research and education in Marine Biology. It was established to honor her 45-years of teaching and research at the university.
"Intellectually she is just as sharp as she has ever been," Franklin said at McCulloch's 100th birthday party in 1985 "She is the starlet of this university."
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trojan
Volume CIV, Number 4
University of Southern California
Wednesday, June 10, 1987
University goes to court
By Danny Bowker
Editor
The university and 10 of its researchers will be arraigned tomorrow for mishandling radioactive materials.
At the Los Angeles Municipal Court arraignment, the university and the researchers will plea guilty or not guilty to 179 charges that were filed March 12 bv City Attorney James Hahn.
According to Stephen Auer, the university's counsel, most of the violations are "regarding paperwork and record-keeping."
But a spokesman for Hahn's office said that the majority of the charges are for incidents and not related to documentation.
Gwendolyn Irbv, the deputy city attorney who is prosecuting the case, told the Daily Trojan "These individuals and the university are being charged with violations of the California Radiation Control regulations, which stems from failure to comply with that code."
The defendants have been instructed by their counsel not to answer any questions about the case.
The radioactive materials in question were being
used mainly in cancer research on the university's Health Sciences Campus.
In a news release, Hahn said that administrators for the campus "were not managing their radiation safety program in a way that regulated the use of radioactive materials or protected their staff and students from excessive radiation exposure."
A spokesman for Hahn said the main charges include:
• The use of radioactive materials by unauthorized personnel.
• The use of radioactive materials in unauthorized places.
• The illegal transfer and disposal of radioactive materials.
• The failure to test radioactive sources for possible leaks.
• Improper calibration of testing equipment to sense individual room contamination.
• The failure to test the rooms where radioactive materials are kept.
• The failure to establish a training program regarding the handling of radioactive materials.
Auer said it would probably be between 45 and 60 days before the case goes to trial, unless there is another continuance.
Wu dislikes policy, resigns
By Danny Bowker
Editor
In a difference of opinion with Athletic Director Mike McGee, the university's director of the student-athlete academic program has resigned.
Willie Wu said McGee's policy of requiring athletes to complete 28 credit hours a year puts financial considerations ahead of the academic well-being of the athletes.
"A lot of it is just a disagreement in the way that you ought to handle student-athletes from a counseling point of view," Wu said. "It's simply a case that I wasn't sure if the priorities they set were right. Sometimes the constraints on the student-athlete made it difficult for them to make the progress McGee wanted."
Last fall, McGee implemented a policy that required athletes to complete 28 credit hours a year in order to be eligible for athletic department financial aid when they have completed their eligibility in their sport.
Athletes are only eligible to compete for four years but it often takes them five or more years to graduate because of a
reduced course load.
National Collegiate Athletic Assoc, rules require only that an athlete complete 12 credit hours a semester to be eligible to compete.
Wu said he resigned because he was not consulted about the decision to implement the policy and because the policy seemed to be motivated by McGee's desire to save financial-aid money.
"Now I'm told we're trying to save money because of the termination of all the coaches but we should have thought of all that before they were terminated," Wu said. "The student's education shouldn't be compromised for financial considerations."
Wu said McGee's decision did not consider that the academic and athletic loads put on some students make it unreasonable for them to complete more than 12 credit hours a semester.
For some students it is absolutely not a problem, but for some students it is a problem. For a student-athlete to do 30 to 40 credit hours of work in athletics and another 14 hours a semester isn't reasonable," Wu said.
Wu said he was caught in the middle of enforcing a policy he did not agree with.
"It's just hard for me to face a student and ask him to do something that may damage him," Wu said. "Even if he completed the 28 hours a year it just makes him eligible to be considered. He still might not get financial aid."
FINGER BOWL — An artist uses his hand to shape a bowl from clay at the Festival of Folk Art. The 12th Annual "International Los Angeles" Festival of Folk Art begins Sunday at the Natural History Museum. The festival's purpose is to highlight the diverse ancestry of Los Angeles. Please see the related story on page 3.
Emanuel gone for year
AARON EMANUEL
By Dave Nimick
Staff Writer
Tailback Aaron Emanuel was suspended from the university for the 1987-88 academic year.
On the recommendation of a three-person administrative review panel, Emanuel was ordered by the Office of Student Affairs to complete 100 hours of community work with victims of violence. He was also ordered to undergo psychiatric treatment monthly during his suspension.
The student conduct review was used because of an incident that took place on May 4 at an off-campus party.
Sharon Hatfield, a member of the women's track team, alleges that Emmanuel came on to her and later punched her in the face, knocking her unconscious.
The 20-year-old Emanuel is set for arraignment in Pasadena Municipal Court on June 17 for the incident involving Hatfield, and on another battery count stemming from an alleged inci dent that occurred on December 18, 1986 with another USC student, Tammy Baird.
Emanuel faces a maximum penalty of one year in countv jailfor one count of battery. Th» (Continued on page 3)
Emeritus professor McCulloch dies at 101
IRENE MCCULLOCH
By Erin O'Malia
Staff Writer
Irene McCulloch, an emeritus professor of biological sciences, died of heart failure May 30. She was 101 years old.
When McCulloch joined the faculty in 1924 she wanted to expand the biology program and worked with Capt. G. Allan Hancock to build the Allan Hancock Foundation for Marine research in 1940.
"She had a lot to do with getting the Hancock building," said Carl Franklin, vice president.
The foundation includes the Hancock Library of Biology and Oceanography, laboratories, a museum, and an auditorium among other things.
McCulloch retired from teaching in 1953 but continued re-
search on single celled organisms called Foraminifera. She published the fourth volume of the book, when she was 94 years old.
In 1982, McCulloch said of the program "We wanted to know what was in the Pacific Ocean. We always stressed practical application. We looked for rare minerals and natural resources, but our primary thrust was what's in the ocean."
"She was a super lady and a very distinguished scientist," Fran kiln said. "She was not only a scientist but a humanist as well. She had some students living in her house over on 30th Street and if they couldn't pay she usually let them go."
McCulloch earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at the
University of Kansas and graduated in 1913. She finished her doctrine at the University of California in 1916, but before teaching at USC she taught at Occidental and Tulane.
In 1971, the Los Angeles City Council honored McCulloch for "a lifetime of teaching and scientific research."
In 1969, colleagues and former students began a McCulloch foundation for research and education in Marine Biology. It was established to honor her 45-years of teaching and research at the university.
"Intellectually she is just as sharp as she has ever been," Franklin said at McCulloch's 100th birthday party in 1985 "She is the starlet of this university."
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